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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color are the Brazilian warehouses?
(a) Black or white.
(b) Pink of blue.
(c) Black or gray.
(d) White or gray.

2. What is described in "Love Lies Sleeping"?
(a) Waking in a house.
(b) Riding on a train.
(c) Riding on a plane.
(d) Waking in a hotel.

3. How does Bishop compare an iceberg to a ship in North and South?
(a) The iceberg is more dangerous.
(b) The ship is of more benefit to the soul.
(c) The iceberg is more interesting.
(d) The ship is more regal.

4. To what does Bishop devote three poems to in North and South?
(a) Evening.
(b) Morning.
(c) Weekends.
(d) Midnight.

5. What is described in the poem "Paris, 7 A.M."?
(a) Observing a courtyard from an apartment window.
(b) Waking.
(c) Riding a train.
(d) Arriving in Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens in "A Miracle for Breakfast"?

2. Who do the characters pick up in "Manners"?

3. What does the man in "The Gentleman of Shalott" believe about being only part of a man?

4. In "Letter to N.Y.," whom is the poet addressing?

5. How does Bishop tend to characterize a person's feelings and moods in the poems in North and South?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bishop use the structure of building each line upon the last in "Visits to St. Elizabeth's"?

2. What is Bishop comparing in "Large Bad Picture" when she refers to "commerce or contemplation"?

3. Does Bishop see the ocean as ever-changing or never changing in the poems in Cold Spring?

4. Why does the character in "The Gentleman of Shalott" think half of him would be enough?

5. In what way does the language contrast with the emotional situation in "Songs for a Colored Singer?"

6. How does the poet frame her journey in "Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance"?

7. In "Electrical Storm," why are the pearls twice described as dead?

8. How are the poems in North and South devoted to morning different?

9. How is the writing style in "The Riverman" unlike most of Bishop's poems?

10. What is the relationship between the fisherman and the fishhouse in "At the Fishhouses"?

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